sad - Story 120858 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worn leather of the journal felt cold against Leo's fingertips. He flipped the pages, each entry a stab of pain. "Go to a music festival." His father’s handwriting, so bold, so full of energy, felt like a stranger’s to him.

He pushed his plate of food away, his appetite gone. The house was too quiet, the silence almost unbearable. The walls seemed to be closing in.

He found himself pacing the floor, restlessly seeking some form of comfort that just would not arrive. His breathing was shallow.

“Learn to play the guitar.” The chords felt distant, impossible. His father's optimism felt like a betrayal.

Emotion: sad

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.52 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.50

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sad. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sad stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sad emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sad vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.436
`😔`	0.405
`S`	0.384
`无法`	0.341
`L`	0.337

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.749
`la`	-0.614
`l`	-0.471
`/`	-0.350
`!`	-0.322